We ought to have made a clean sweep of the whole affair.

Slavery is a serpent which we nourished in its weakness, and now it is stinging us in its strength." "I think so, too," said Captain Sybil.

"But in making his proclamation of freedom, perhaps Mr.Lincoln went as far as he thought public opinion would let him." "It is remarkable," said Colonel Robinson, "how these Secesh hold out.
It surprises me to see how poor white men, who, like the negroes, are victims of slavery, rally around the Stripes and Bars.

These men, I believe, have been looked down on by the aristocratic slaveholders, and despised by the well-fed and comfortable slaves, yet they follow their leaders into the very jaws of death; face hunger, cold, disease, and danger; and all for what?
What, under heaven, are they fighting for?
Now, the negro, ignorant as he is, has learned to regard our flag as a banner of freedom, and to look forward to his deliverance as a consequence of the overthrow of the Rebellion." "I think," said Captain Sybil "that these ignorant white men have been awfully deceived.

They have had presented to their imaginations utterly false ideas of the results of Secession, and have been taught that its success would bring them advantages which they had never enjoyed in the Union." "And I think," said Colonel Robinson, "that the women and ministers have largely fed and fanned the fires of this Rebellion, and have helped to create a public opinion which has swept numbers of benighted men into the conflict.